mkhart Man Seeks Vindication from Wrongful Conviction Dear Community at Large: My name is Jonathan Galen McPherson, I am 40 years of age, a single-father of (6) children, (3) boys and (3) girls, and I was born and raised in Elkhart, Indiana. I was wrongfully convicted at trial of (2) counts for dealing in Cocaine, (1) count of maintaining a common nuisance, (1) count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a Serious Violent Felon (SVF), and for being a habitual offender. The dealing in Cocaine...

FRIENDS AND FAMILY CAMPAIGN TO FREE INDIANA POLITICAL PRISONER KHALFANI MALIK KHALDUN The long struggle to have the Indiana prisoncrats to release Khalfani Malik Khaldun to general population is over. It cam to an end on November 20, 2014, ten days before his 45* birthday, after spending 20 straight years in solitary conﬁnement. This victory is bittersweet, because while housed at the New Castle Correctional Facility, working his way through a step-down program called S-T.A.N.D. (striving tow...

Labeling Theory Like most prisoners, I could go on a tirade about the multitude of problems that exist within the confines of prisons. But, most of those problems are merely symptomatic of a greater issue: the way in which prisoners are viewed. The police, courts, legislators, and prison officials label prisoners in ways that perpetuate the existing system. For the prisoner, the labeling process begins at the time of arrest. Suspects are humiliated by being arrested in public. This humiliatio...

Kenneth G. Wolfe Indiana NO TITLE Hello, My name is Kenneth George Wolfe #, and I am a 67 year old disabled inmate at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, in Carlisle, Indiana, and I would like to speak on health care, or the lack of health care, the prisoners receive in this state. Corizon, the nations largest for-profit medical services provider for prisons, jails, and other detention facilities, was formed in June 2011 through the merger of Prison Health Services (PHS) and Correctional...